Journal

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=Week 5:= = =

= Journal Observation activity/tuning in> =


 * Observation 1)** When I woke up and turned on the tv there was a cartoon on. As a teacher I find that this could be useful and adapted to use within a classroom art lesson such as having student develop their own mini cartoon or animation.


 * Observation 2)** Shortly after turning the tv on the add's started and there was an add for a movie that was coming out soon which was an animated childrens movie. This observation like the one above can be adapted to use in the classroom by once again having student create their own animation or short film using animation. You could set a theme that the student's need to use within their animation and so on to adapt it to the topics you are currently studing.


 * Observation 3)** At about 7am I turned on the computer and to my suprise there were more examples of digital art. As the computer loaded it the main page appeared which was a screen saver of a mixture of colours splashed across the screen and then ther are flowers over the top. I found this observation to be the most useful as a teacher because it really inspired me because of the possibilities. You could have students create their own screen saver which they can save and then use on their own computers and the different froms which can be used range from amination, collecting images and placing them ontop of each other, using colour or black and white, using shapes, using photos, using pictures and the possibilities go on. I think creating a screen saver would be a very interesting lesson for students that they would enjoy.


 * Observation 4)** For brunch I felt like something different so I decieded to goggle a recipe within a recipe book. This observation is of use to me as a teacher because it lead me to wonder what other sort's of books that students could create using didital media such as a wiki with there art works or create a web page/ virtal book with attaching pages to dispaly artworks and share with peers, family and other schools.


 * Observation 5)** I picked up my ipod to listen to some music when I noticed that the film clip also play's along with the song when it's placed into the ipod dock. This observation lead me to wonder how this coulb be incorparated into a arts lesson. Students could create their own music using computer programs they can also include images with the music.

I found this task to be quite suprising, the night before I placed a note pad next to my bed so when I woke up I could note down things as I noticed them but I didnt think that I would notice so many within such a short space of time. It really show's how much art is apart of our daily lives and differs in so many ways in the forms that we incounter. My observations didnt differ to much which shows me that Ineed to get out of the house more:)

Week 6:
= ** Journal task: Pick a topic, gather resources ** **Individually:** = = = The topic that I have chosen that im quite interested in is nature as I love the way aspect's of the enviornment and nature can be transmited through art. The follow is the task for this topis:)

=Week 7:= = ** Journal. Exploring existing units ****Individually.** = = = Above is the lesson plan that I have chosen to focus on which is called Plains Indians and pictograph. It's a form of telling a story that the native americans used to communicate. A pictograph is a form of communicating were words are replased with pictures or a symbol. The following lessons are for students to create their own pictography stories. I think that this topic could be used a central unit that could go for a 6 week or lesson period and also incorperates history, geography, language, arts in diffenent forms and also show's differneces and simularities between different cultures, as you can look at how aboriginals, egyptian and many other cultures used pictograph's and how they viewed them as apart of their culture as in most cultures tech. are passed through the generations. Although this lesson plan would need to be modifiyed for our classrooms as it's from an american site the lesson plan and idea itself I believe is a great lesson as it covers a range of culture issues and the apreciation and value of art across the cultures. I also like the fact that the result the students produce helps to assess their understanding of the concept's introduced and the tech. Below is the website which the lesson plan itself come from and it also has many interesting and different ideas and lessons so ive included it for you to look at for ideas although a lot of them are very basic, but they would make great starting point's for a lesson. =[|Art lesson plans]= = = = = =Week 8:= =**Journal:** Bookclub **Individually:** = = = =Week 9:= = ** Journal task: Fox ** =

I must say that I was very impressed and suprised at just how many different lessons we covered just using the fox story and production. I really loved how by using such a strong starting point and im not sure if the fact that it was also a story so we had a visual to incorperate into each lesson helped to create lessons that we easily crossed over with other interdisciplinary strands and other VELs domains such as literacy, physical and so on. I really enjoyed the experience of drawing from what we see and the little tips that Julie had really helped as im not a strong drawer at all and I was able to create/ draw something that resembeled the black crow. The mask making was also really fun and would be very usefull to use within the classroom as it allows the children to draw draw on their creative side and come up with a fantastic mask while incorperating the key ideas such as an animal as we did in class. The experience's I felt really allowed us or the students to use their creativity and mastery skills and was easily used within a socio cultural context and big idea themes or approaches. I will definatly remember what I have learned through out studing this topic as I can use this tech. of using a large concept to branch off lessons on to create engaging, intersting and incorparated a range of learning standards or domains. =Week 10:= = Journal: Select 3 works (1 contemporary, 1 from western traditions, 1 from non-western traditions) = =Work 1:= The first piece of art that Im looking at it a film or documentary by Essie Coffrey who was the first female indigenous director which in itself is quite a cultural significance to this piece of work. Although it is a documentary it is still a from of media art as it diplict the life of Essie Coffrey and the struggles she and indigenous people had to go through. It is from the, and set in the late 1970's. This can be used within the classroom with students as they can create their own documentary focusing on their own personal cultural aspects or they can develop a staged documentry or a retelling of a meaningful cultural event which is all a great lesson for intergrated learning.

Reference: Essie Coffrey. 1978. My survival as an aboriginal. 50 mins. Goodgaban productions. Australia. =Work 2:= The second piece of work Ive chosen is anime. Anime is a cartoon television series or movie made in Japan. In Japanese anime the characters traditionally have extremly large, doe like eyes and spikey or long hair. Unlike other cartoon such as australian and american cartoons anime characters evolve as the series moves along. They deal with complex issues, including the reality and acceptance of death. Anime offers insight into the Japanese culture and often includes many Asian myths, symbols and martial arts. The first Anime was releasted in 1963 and was called The mighty atom. [|Reference] =Work 3:= [|Examples] This link here is also my reference and has the art that I have chosen for work number 3 as they are different forms of art works and photography. The picture that Im looking at is on the top line of the of the link and is 5 in from the begining of the top row. The photo is a form of didital art by an artist called steamed pepsi and is resent but in not sure of the date as it is not mentioned. This could easily be used within a class lesson by having the students explore photography and creating something artist and beautiful. Ijust love the photo and the many others that are on the website redbubble. =Week 11:= = Journal:Shared Wonder. = This task has been included through the discussions section of our main wiki page as when I find something interesting or that I would like to share Ive posted it up through there. I have also included through out my own wiki many interesting, funny, useful items and pieces of information to share with my group. I hope you enjoy looking through all the wonderful things that Ive collected so far.

=Week 12:= = Journal:Re-evaluate: = I feel that the wiki is a great learning tool but next time I will defenatly look at the programs before choseing on as this program itself I found very difficult to use and not to user friendly. The way of being able to share and add information regarding topics that we are studying or that are of interest is great and has helped with my learning and also provided me a valuble resource that I can keep and mantain to use within my teaching. I did find that it was hard to complete some tasks just due to the wiki and its formate but I feel I have done quite well to deal with and come across differnent ways or adding and sharing information. I also would have set up a page on it's own for discussions and journal tasks as it's hard to go through each persons indivdual wiki and look for their posts and journal entries and then comment on them somewhere else without having the post or entries infront of you. Overall I did find that the possitive outwayed the negitive.